He was taking her on a date. For the first time in the year, but also in a very long while. Merric's bad habit of tunnel visioning put a strain on everything, and he'd neglected Nina since the fall of last year. He was trying to make it up to her, and more than that he was trying to keep a hold of his humanity. In the months since Albireo had corrupted, he'd found himself losing more and more of himself. He was vicious to White Mooners, he training nonstop.

He abandoned his little sister at the ball without a second thought. He'd even been alright with her being drained.

He didn't even think of it as an issue and that... bothered him, on a deep level. Perhaps he'd been focusing too much on the Negaverse and not on his civilian life. On his family, on his friends. Perhaps he needed a bit of break.

So his decision was to take Nina ice skating. It wasn't something he was particularly good at, but it seems like a fun and romantic (and very human) idea.

Course all his training really didn't prepare him for trying to stand on tiny little blades of metal though. "You all set, Nina?" he asked her with a smile. His skates were tied as tight as they'd go, but he wasn't exactly sure he was going to be able to even walk to the rink. It didn't seem so hard, but again tiny metal blades on his feet.

Orangeish Sherbert
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